Statistics for occurrence #1 of “General Longstreet” in chapter 88, page 685 of Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9.:
... driven back, and retired to the rear or through the town.
Under this state of facts, I had instantly to determine either to retreat or fight.
A retreat would have left the town of Sharpsburg and General Longstreet 's rear open to the enemy, and was inadmissible.
I, therefore, with less than one fifth of the enemy's numbers, determined to give him battle, and immediately and rapidly formed my line of battle in...
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